Well, I missed it until 11:24pm tonight, but a preview of tonight’s GBIO action was on the front page of the Globe. It’s not a bad article, really, although I wish it had concentrated on the trials that people endure right now, today, all the time, under the current system. But I guess that’s not considered news — the dance of power always seems more interesting…
Also, the reporter sells it as a "universal" health care plan. It’s not: it would cover 80% of the currently uninsured in MA. You can see it as a substantial step towards universal coverage in some of its structural particulars, but it’s not a flat-out universal plan.
And here’s a deceptively enlightening quote from Romney’s spokesman:
”Both the governor and the Senate president have made it clear thattax increases and employer mandates are off the table," Fehrnstrom said.
Well, let’s be clear what is on the table, then. High deductibles and high co-pays for people who are the least able to afford it, A-OK, that’s on the table. Taking away people’s dental coverage: that’s on the table. Eyeglasses: on the table, and they’ll take them, too, thank you very much.
Let’s be clear: people’s lives … they’re on the table. No taxes or employer mandates, though. Priorities.
Anyhoo, it was a really great event tonight. Very inspiring, but also humbling: there’s a lot of work to do. I’ll write more tomorrow.
— the dance of power always seems more interesting…Yes, I heard an interview with Globe columnist Joan Vennochi on WBUR right before the Democrats’ annual convention that almost made me cancel my WBUR membership. It seemed that they couldn’t talk about anything other than the marriage equality platform plank, and only in a baseball game framework: whether or not Galvin and Patrick were choosing their positions on the issue to put Reilly in a box. The whole conversation struck me as a facile pasting together a bunch of cliches. Who knows, maybe it wasn’t a real interview, just something created with a simple computer program and some speech synthesis software.
Charley,What group were you there with? I was part of the Trinity contingent.
Hey Abby, cool that you were there. I was with Church of the Advent, towards the back right, under the balcony.Trinity, huh? One of Fran Early’s crew… she’s awesome.
Patrick Gray is pretty great too. (I’m not enough of an Anglo-Catholic to call anyone Father anything.)We used to go there when I was little. Almost everyone we knew has drifted away. We left, when we moved to the burbs and Andrw Mead came. I still miss Richard Holloway.My sister’s godmother Melissa Fox is still a stalwart.